History

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

A spectacular rainbow of stained glass makes the "Pink Mosque" one of the most beautiful in Iran.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

The giant club-wielding wildman stands proud as the symbol of Swedish Lapland.

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.

This 1920s masterpiece of French Quarter architecture hides a secret tunnel used by Albert Einstein.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

The last working windmill in the U.K. that has eight sails.